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Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

Basic tenets

  • Does our design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
  • Have we kept things as simple as possible?
  • Have we automated everything?
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